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Moriarty the Patriot (Japanese: 憂国のモリアーティ, Hepburn: Yūkoku no Moriāti) is a Japanese mystery manga series with storyboards by Ryosuke Takeuchi and illustrated by Hikaru Miyoshi , based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. It focuses on Holmes' nemesis, William James Moriarty.
Double page from Blame!. Blame! is set in "The City", a gigantic megastructure occupying much of what used to be the Solar System. Its exact size is unknown, but Tsutomu Nihei suggested its diameter to be at least equal to Jupiter's orbit, or about 1.6 billion kilometers (a detail suggested in the manga by having Killy cross an empty, spherical room roughly the size of Jupiter, suggesting that ...
YuYu Hakusho (Japanese: 幽☆遊☆白書, Hepburn: Yū Yū Hakusho) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi.It tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a teenage delinquent who is struck and killed by a car while saving a child's life.
Tomie (Japanese: 富江) is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito.It centers on a mysterious, beautiful woman named Tomie Kawakami.The manga was Ito's first published work that he originally submitted to Monthly Halloween, a shōjo magazine in 1987, which led to him winning the Kazuo Umezu award.
All this, plus beautiful animation and well-written dialogue and plot, makes Death Note the cream of the animated crop." [138] The Death Note anime was one of the series to win Best TV Anime at the 2007 Tokyo International Anime Fair. [139] In 2009, Death Note was listed as the 51st best animated show in IGN's Top 100 Animated Series. [140]
Akumetsu at Anime e Manga thought the film could have been a masterpiece, but felt the plot was too straightforward, the film was too short, and the conclusion came too dramatically. [ 38 ] Chris Beveridge at The Fandom Post reviewed the Blu-ray release, noting that the dialogue was "clean and clear" throughout the entire playback and described ...
The Akira anime also made Time magazine's list of top 5 anime DVDs. [124] The film also made number 16 on Time Out ' s top 50 animated movie list [125] and number 5 on the Total Film Top 50 Animated Films list. [126] The film was ranked No. 1 by Wizard's Anime magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America" list in 2001. [127]
Hiroya Oku first thought of Gantz ' s story when he was in high school. He was inspired by the jidaigeki program Hissatsu, and the Robert Sheckley novel Time Killer.However, he did not decide to make Gantz until after writing the manga Zero One; Zero One had a similar setting, but Oku ended the series, noting it was not very entertaining and that it was too expensive to develop.